Quoted from ifpapinball:I will deal with those individual TD's privately with respect to their unique situations (and have texted with Dan a bunch already about this). I believe we can find a sponsor specifically for MGC to make sure it's included. Who knows, I might even sponsor the MGC tournaments out of my own pocket since that tournament means a ton to me personally. 11 years ago we ran the first official IFPA tournament for wppr points, and it was at the MGC teaming up with Dan and crew.
Between your email tonight and this thread being bumped, and me catching up on all that we missed, we should chat sometime soon.
I need to know if I'm going to hold, "THE MOST GINORMOUS CASUAL pinball TOURNAMENT in the UNIVERSE OMG WUT!!!!11eleventy!1!" which I'm seriously thinking about naming it, or if we can figure something out. Based on your email and the challenge thing, you may have created a legal loophole that I'm comfortable with.
Which I guess means I should check and ensure we would be the biggest pinball tournament not competing under IFPA points if that happens anyway.
And for anyone armchair quarterbacking your lawyer statements about how I'm an idiot and wrong about Wisconsin law, it doesn't matter to me if you don't understand my reasons for doing things the way that I do, it matters that I do. Additionally, I remain unwilling for various reasons which I think are valid to fully explain the problems we have ran into online. I understand that this seems weird and by doing random Google searches, it appears I must be wrong, but I'm not willing to risk sitting even one night in jail for something as ultimately meaningless in the long term as hosting a pinball tournament. A number of people, including Josh, has spoken with me directly about our issues, and that's what matters.
Oh, and I almost forgot - I'm also in no way opposed to this being a thing that the IFPA does and I understand why they are attempting to do it. I just have personal reservations based on a specific situation for our state, as well as one that is selectively enforced, but has been against us in the past, probably because as we've grown, it's easier to notice us. I actually agree, in principal, with the idea, and hope that a workaround to keep it so that I am comfortable can be had. If not, I completely understand if we can't do it, and hold no ill will against anyone. I honestly don't think it would affect our tournament participation much, nor am I concerned about attendance dropping over it.